Iraq says doctors can carry guns for protection

By GottaLaff

Is this the victory Gramm-pa McCain and IWRC* Palin like to tout?

Iraq will allow doctors to carry guns to protect themselves after hundreds have been targeted and killed since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the government said Monday.

The government also ordered the Health Ministry to begin building high security residential compounds around the hospitals for physicians to live in, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Cabinet said in a statement.

The moves come as Iraq is struggling to ease a shortage of medical workers and lure back the thousands of doctors who fled the violence plaguing the country. [...]

Their departure has further crippled a health care system plagued by corruption, mismanagement and a lack of equipment and drugs.

How's that surge working for ya?

*"In What Respect, Charlie?"